War Has Badly Impacted Tigray's Healthcare System in a Span of One Year

Tigray faced the worst humanitarian crisis after war broke out in Ethiopia's Tigray region on 4 November 2020. As per reports by various human rights organizations, thousands of civilians were killed in the battle.

Before the conflict, the Tigray area had 47 medical and healthcare facilities, 224 wellness habitats, 712 health posts and 269 ambulances. Assaults on frontline workers and healthcare facilities are sadly an everyday issue in the war. However, the size and rate of the annihilation of Tigray's healthcare system are extreme. 

Ethiopian and Eritrean armies have carried out a progression of crimes in Tigray. There are claims that there's been annihilation and plundering of accessible food supplies, and farming has become impossible.

Most health facilities were plundered by ground armies and afterwards demolished or transformed into military barracks. This shows the systematic nature of the attack.

A broad survey of international organizations and human rights groups reports on the conflict in Tigray, investigating the scale and nature of the assault on the decaying healthcare system and its crisis.

It's an attack on the area's healthcare infrastructure, including health facilities, frontline workers, ambulances, patients, clinical supplies and gear. In under five weeks, it was accounted that more than 200 healthcare facilities were demolished and looted.

The leftover healthcare facilities are hardly functioning because of the war on Tigray, which is hindering the stockpile of medications and fundamental administrations like media transmission, banking, electricity and fuel.